AS 3789.

10—2000

Australian Standard™
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Textiles for health care facilities and

institutions

Part 10: Blankets—Cotton woven

cellular blankets
 This Australian Standard was prepared by Committee TX/15, Textiles for Health Care
Facilities and Institutions. It was approved on behalf of the Council of Standards
Australia on 12 November 1999 and published on 17 January 2000.

The following interests are represented on Committee TX/15:

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Australian Linen Services Executive
Australian Wool Research and Promotion Organisation
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Australian Wool Testing Authority

Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia
New Zealand Leather & Shoe Research Association
N.S.W. Health Department
Textile Distributors Association
Textile Rental & Laundry Association
Victorian Institutional Laundries Association

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 AS 3789.10—2000

Australian Standard™
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Textiles for health care facilities and

institutions

Part 10: Blankets—Cotton woven

cellular blankets

Originated as AS 2390.2 — 1990.

Revised and redesignated as AS 3789.10 — 2000.

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 AS 3789.10 — 2000 2

PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Standards Australia Committee TX/15, Textiles for Health
Care Facilities and Institutions to supersede AS 2390.2 — 1990, Textiles for hospitals and
institutions — Blankets, Part 2: Cotton woven cellular blankets.
The terms ‘normative’ and ‘informative’ have been used in this Standard to define the
application of the appendix to which they apply. A ‘normative’ appendix is an integral part
of a Standard, whereas an ‘informative’ appendix is only for information and guidance.
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CONTENTS
Page

SECTION 1 SCOPE AND GENERAL

1.1 SCOPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.4 CLASSIFICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.5 TEST SAMPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.6 MARKING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

SECTION 2 MANUFACTURING REQUIREMENTS

2.1 FIBRE CONTENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 FABRIC CONSTRUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3 COLOUR AND FINISH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.4 HEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.5 MASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.6 DIMENSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

SECTION 3 PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

3.1 BREAKING FORCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2 COLOURFASTNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.3 FLAMMABILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

APPENDICES
A PURCHASING GUIDELINES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
B MEASUREMENT OF BLANKETS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

Australian Standard
Textiles for health care facilities and institutions

Part 10: Blankets — Cotton woven cellular blankets

S E C T I O N 1 S C O P E A N D G E N E R A L

1.1 SCOPE This Standard specifies requirements for cotton, woven cellular blankets for
use in hospitals and kindred institutions. The requirements specified relate to fibre content,
blanket construction, colour, hemming and colourfastness. Test methods for measuring the
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physical properties of the blanket materials are also included.

NOTES:
1 For situations where fire is considered a hazard, Clause 3.3 describes test methods for
determining the acceptability of cotton woven cellular blankets which have been treated with a
fire retardant.
2 Appendix A contains recommendations and advice on information which should be provided by
the purchaser at the time of enquiry or order.
3 A sealed sample may be held by the purchaser as a reference for properties not specified in this
Standard.

1.2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS The following documents are referred to in this

Standard:
AS
2001 Methods of test for textiles
2001.1 Part 1: Conditioning procedures
2001.2.3 Part 2.3: Physical tests — Determination of breaking force and extension of
textile fabrics
2001.4.1 Part 4.1: Colourfastness tests — Definitions and general requirements
2001.4.8 Part 4.8: Colourfastness tests — Determination of colourfastness to water
2001.4.15 Part 4.15: Colourfastness tests — Determination of colourfastness to washing
2001.4.17 Part 4.17: Colourfastness tests — Determination of colourfastness to perspiration
2001.5.4 Part 5.4: Dimensional change — Determination of dimensional change in
laundering of textile fabrics and garments — Automatic machine
method
2755 Textiles fabrics — Burning behaviour
2755.1 Part 1: Determination of ease of ignition of vertically oriented specimens
2860 Textiles — Stitch types — Classification and terminology
4146 Laundry practice
AS/NZS
1957 Textiles — Care labelling
2622 Textile products — Fibre content labelling

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